No one had prepared for such an intense weather phenomenon. There were multiple tornadoes across six states and one is thought to have travelled for 200 miles at ground level.
At the fire station in Mayfield, we found firefighters who had just finished their shift now repairing their own premises. The roof had been ripped off.
The fire chief, Jeremy Creason, had asked his team to stay as the storm hit. They did, and they now wonder how they survived. "The building was shaking, the lights were going off, there was debris flying everywhere," Mr Creason said.Had he ever experienced anything like that before, I asked.Up the road, the local candle factory had been full with night shift workers meeting the Christmas demand. Among those trapped for hours was Kyana Parsons Perez."The lights went out and then we did a rock, rock, rock. Boom," she told reporters.
There are many communities which have been hit like this. Across several states from north to south, the length of the country, this series of tornadoes has ripped apart life and livelihood.
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